traditional Japanese sweets
Japanese sweets
Japanese sweets has over twelve-hundred history, it originated from
the Chinese elixir of life. In Edo period, it had incorporated the technique
of the western sweets. After over hundreds years' harmonizing of both
sweets, Japanese sweets had established as one of the Japnese own
cultures. Japanese sweets is full of seasonal taste and consisted of
aesthetic sense and colors of four seasons, such as a pink colored rice
cake rolled with cherry leaf in spring, as a sweet jellied bean paste in
summer. Most of names of Japanese sweets are based with the
beauties and scenries of the nature, traditional Japanese poetries,
literatures, local history, name of the place and etc. And also, Japanese
sweets is very important fact on various cultural events of Japanese
people's life, such from a birth to entry to school to marriage to funeral.